On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 20:57 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Lu, Yinghai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051007 20:42]: > > > > Please check it, I will check that in this weekend > > > > YH > > > Copyright 2005 ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. All Rights Reserved. > > This software and any related documentation (the "Materials") are the > > confidential proprietary information of AMD. Unless otherwise provided in a > > software agreement specifically licensing the Materials, the Materials are > > provided in confidence and may not be distributed, modified, or reproduced > > in > > whole or in part by any means. > > Except the first line, I am not sure if we want these claims in the > tree. First, a lot of files have been there before and so it should say > "Parts of this software" instead of "This software". > > Though "the Materials" are licensed GPL, the sentence "may not be > distributed, modified, or reproduced" sounds really scary to me. > > I believe this means nothing bad here, but then what is it good for? > > (I am not a lawyer) > > Stefan >
I thought the license term only apply to the microcode itself? Do you have to add this AMD license into every file you have touched? -- Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Los Alamos National Lab -- LinuxBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
